If you’re looking for ways to hit your Twitter targets, this is the post for you. First of all, you should ask yourself, what are your Twitter targets? You want lots of followers? Sure, that might lead to some bragging rights, but what’s the point? Really what you’re after is community which translates into meaningful followers. How do you get meaningful followers? I queried some other successful Twitter-ites to learn about their favorite... 

ChumpDump is a new Twitter unfollow game for Google Android and Apple iPhone. We think you’ve got too many chumps in your friends list. Friends are today’s 21st century currency in life. You see it in every social network, this obsession with collecting friends. But how many of them are really friends? The game’s daily lottery picks a winner out of your friends this and then digs through a month of tweets and tells you a story about... 

Today’s post comes from Pongrob Saisuwan of TwitBlend. He’s showing us how to use the service. You can follow Pongrob at @twitblend . There’s so many auto-generated list of tweets out there but the results are mostly spam. So why not make it ourselves? With a service called TwitBlend you can easily create your own “collection of tweets” or “tweet list” yourself and it’s very easy to use! This is what... 

LinkedIn already syncs status updates with Twitter , but now the business social network is taking its Twitter integration to the next level to help users better track and follow their connections. LinkedIn’s Tweets application, which the company announced has over one million users, has gotten a major upgrade. It is now divided into four parts: Overview, Connections, My Tweets and Settings. The overview tab shows you a basic outline of... 

When you ask someone who doesn’t use Twitter why they abstain, you’ll most likely hear, “There’s no point”, “I’m on enough networks already”, or my least favourite, “I don’t need to hear what anybody had for breakfast.” Sigh. These are all obviously silly reasons but they do show something important: Twitter has a learning curve. It’…  Read More →

2 Points Twitter, according to GigaTweet, has now processed 10 billion tweets through their real time short messaging service.  Read More →

When I first started using Twitter earlier in the year, I didn’t really understand #hashtags. As a result, I didn’t utilize them. However, I’ve now started using at least one hashtag in all my tweets and my Twitter experience has improved drastically as a result. Hashtags as Keywords One simple way of thinking of hashtags is as keyword tags that help label your tweets. If you use a blogging platform like WordPress or social media... 

Twitter passed the one billion tweet mark back in November of last year. It took them less than a year to quintuple that figure: according to Gigatweet , Twitter has now passed the 5 billion tweet mark. Wow. CNet reports that the 5 billionth tweet was delivered by one of Twitter’s initial loyal users, which seems fitting. Robin Sloan’s famed 5 billionth tweet read simply, “Oh lord.” It was apparently an unintentional,... 

By Trevor Dobrygoski of Twit 101 – Follow him @trevord209 Have you seen the Hangover? If not, you may want to grab the eight other people out there who haven’t and go give it a peek. Without ruining it for all eight of you, here is a quick rundown. A group of four friends go to Vegas to celebrate an upcoming wedding. After a long night of bachelor party fun, they lose the groom. The remaining three spend the bulk of the movie trying... 

by Jimmy Jangles of  The Optimus Prime Experiment – Follow him  @jimmyjangles So you have a twitter account and you think it’s a better read than Dan Brown’s new novel ‘The Lost Symbol’ but unlike Dan Brown’s 100 million plus loyal followers you have 33 and want 666. What do you do? Applying this simple Angels and Demons Guide to Good Twitter etiquette will help you get and keep those followers you deserve! Angels: Write interesting... 

In your head, you probably think you talk to much on Twitter. Some of you might feel that you don’t say enough. Well now you can see for yourself with TweetStats , a tweet graph service. Using TweetStats, you can get quick updates on the days you tweet the most, how much you on average per day, month, and even per hour. Stats also include Twitter clients you use the most, who retweets you often, and who you tend to talk to the most. You... 

David Wright is a direct response copywriter and marketing specialist at Ghostwriter Dad. Follow him @bloggerdad Twitter is a lot like the wild west of social media. The venue is relatively new, many people are unfamiliar with the etiquette and an even larger number of people could care less about the few rules in place. Which is why I am quick to my trigger and hit the block …  Read More →

by Robert Dwyer of The Wellesley Wine Press – Follow him @RobertDwyer A subtly confusing aspect of Twitter , even for people who have been using the service for a while, is understanding the differences between replies, mentions and direct messages. These concepts are confusing because they’re different than E-mail and aren’t necessarily the same as on other social networks like Facebook. The goal of this piece is to help well-meaning... 

We love how the Mashable community uses Twitter to discuss and share our stories, but until now there’s been no way to connect with Mashable readers who Tweet. Why not create a hub of all the Mashable-related activity happening on Twitter to help find the most talked-about stories, track trending topics within the social media realm and connect with other Mashable …  Read More →

The day of Twitter reckoning is upon us! Again . For every tweet, there is a unique number or identifier. Back in June, once tweet number 2,147,483,647 hit, some high profile apps broke because they were not designed to handle tweets with that large of an identifier. Two weeks ago, we reported that the Twitpocalypse was coming back – specifically, on September 11th. It was the same issue as last time – unique identifiers for tweets,...